Apparel garment



June 27, 1933. J. H RAMBQ 1,915,619 Q APPAREL GARMENT Filed March 28,1931 5 m ATTORNEY Patented Jane 27, rare UWTEQ STATES FFHCE PATENT JAMESH. EAMBG, OF FAIREIELD, ILLINOIS ASSlIG-NOB T SEXTDN MANUFACTURING- 1APPAREL GARIMENT Application filed March 28, 1931. Serial No. %,056.

This invention relates generally to apparel garments and moreparticularly, to a certain new and useful improvement in that class ofapparel-garments known as track pants and more commonly designated asshortsl.

My invention has for its chief object the provision of a neat-fitting,inexpensive garment of closed crotch track-pants essentially comprisingside-front panels and a single back panel so constructed, dimensioned,and united as to provide fullness in the crotch and across the buttocksand at the same time eliminate rear seams.

My invention has for a further object the provision of a garment-oftrack-pants type embodying a back panel having a bulging crotchconstruction and a bias cut at the sides for providing a panel fullnessdepending over the buttocks when the garment is on the body.

My invention has for another object the provision of a three-piecegarment of trackpants type including a onepiece back panel cut with asubstantial bias towards the front for providing a neat fit at the waistline with the required fullness in the seat and bottom of the garment.

My invention has for still another object the provision of an improvedform of track pants garment patterned in such manner as to effect asaving both in the yardage of material used, as well as the laborrequired in marking, cutting, and sewing the garment.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invent-ion resides inthe novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combinationof parts hereinafter described and set forth in the claim.

in the accompanying drawing,-'

Figure 1 is a side front view of a garment of my invention as worn onthe trunk of the body;

Figure 2 is a rear view of the garment; Figure 3 is a front side view ofthe garment;

Figure A is the'pattern of the back panel; and

Figures 5'and 6 are the patterns of the two front panels, respectively.

Referring now more in detail and by refpants, although the garment may,and often 5 is, employed as a nether garment for male and female wear. 7

The garment is constructed of and comprisesthree pieces or sections,that is, a single back panel A, and two side-front panels,

The back panel A is cut with its Waist-edge 1 straight on the thread ofthe material, its opposite side edges 2 are cut approximately on adegree bias towards the front, and is biased on the bottom, as at 3,from each side towards the crotch. At the crotch or inseam, the panel Ais cut with a double reversed curve providing a bulge 4 at the center ofthe crotch curve 5, all as best seen in Figure 4, the back panel orsection A having a Width between the opposite meeting corners of itsside and bottom ed es2 and 3 approximately equal to the width of thecomplete garment, when laid flat, as best seen in Figure 2.

The side-front panels B, C, aresubstantial- 1y similar in form and areeach cut with a slight bias at the waist 6 towards the rearside sea-m 7,and provided'at the front with a'somewhat angular or oblique crotch orinseam edge 8 terminating in an approximately V-shaped indenture 9, fromthe inner or upper end of which the front edge is extended straightwiseupwardly, as at 10, to provide material for forming fold-over frontfacings "in the finished garment, the shape of the panels B, C, beingbest seen in Figures 5 and 6. Preferably, it may be added, the side-edge7 and bottom edge 11 of each of the panels or sections B, C, are outsubstantially straight with the threads of the material. 7

In assembling the panels A, B, and C to form the finished garment, bestseen in Figures 2 and 3, the oblique side edges 2 of the back panel Aare stitched or sewed to the straight side edges 7 of the panels B, G,at op posite side seams 12, and the indenture-edges 9 of the panels B,C, are sewed together at the front seam of the garment. The obliquefrontedge portions 8 of the panels B, C, are

stitched to the curved crotch edge 4, 5, of the panel A at the inseam13, thereby providing the leg-openings 14, and, as will bereadily seen,the curved edge 4,5 when conjoined to said front-edge portions 8,provide, by reason of the crotch formation of the panel A, a fullness,as at 15,-in the crotch,as best seen in Figure 2. V

The combined effect of the fullness and the bias cut of the side edges 2of the back panel A provides, in the finished garment, a panel-fullness,as at D, depending over the buttocks, apparent, as the garment is worn,and when the body is in erect posture, as a bag-like effect extendinglaterally in both directions from the crotch fullness 15 thence upwardlyapproximately to the waist line 16, as best seen in Figures 1 and 2. Thefullness Duprovides a most adequate and comfortable seat to thegarmentwholly without seams that might affect the comfort of the garmentnot, to my knowledge, to be obtained'in garments of thistypeasheretofore constructed.

The straight front edge-portion 10 of the ipanel C is folded over andsewed, as at 17*, for forming one of the opposing margins of the frontopening of the garment, the "straight front-edge portion 10 of the otherpanel-B being slmllarly folded over and sewed for a like purpose. I "Iprefer also to provide a stomach band 18 at the front of the garment,the same being providedwith cooperable fastening means 19 at the frontopening, as shown.

The waist of the back panel A is most conveniently and comfortablygathered with an elastic band20, as best seen in Figure 2, the gatheringhaving the effect of emphasizing therpanel fullness D.

Thus, by my invention, I am enabled to provide a track-pants garmentsimple in constructure and low in cost.

The garment is composed of only three pleces, effecting a saving inyardage of mate- A ,rial, as well as labor in the markingand cuttingthereof.

Thegarment is completely closed in two operations, that is, the sewingof one side and the inseam (the other side having been pre- ,viouslyseamed), thus simplifying the closure operation, avoiding thepossibility of errors in making the closure, and'hence increasingproduction for a given labor cost.

The back panel A, being cut in one piece,

more seat fullness than heretofore obtained in this class of garment.

The side seams of the garment are approximately on a 25 degree bias,which provides a substantially perfect fit at the waist line,

whilealso providing the required fullness in the seat and bottom of thegarment.

The crotch of the garment, being cut with construction, arrangement, andcombination of the several parts of the garment may be made andsubstituted for those herein shown and described without departing fromthe nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is,

A garment of the track-pants type having a closed back, seat, and crotchand comprising in its construction a single back-panel and apair ofcompanion side-front panels, the back-panel having a greater width. atits lower margin than at, its upper margin and its said margins beingconnected by opposed downwardly and forwardly oblique side edges, theupper margin of the back-panel being straight from side edge to sideedge and the bottom margin of the back-panel being of irregular shapedivided to include opposed downwardly and rearwardly oblique edges andan intermediate upwardly indented crotch of undulatory contour, theback-panel being of greater height centrally than at its oblique sideedges to afford extreme fullness in the crotch, each of the front-sidepanels having a straight rear edge and a front edge comprising an upperstraight-portion, an

. oblique lower inseam portion, and an intermediate connectingindenture, the side-front panels being stitched along their straightrear edges to the oblique side edges of the.

- edge of the back-panel in the formation of leg-openings, theside-front panels being further stitched together at their saidindentures in the formation of a closed crotch, each of the side-frontpanels along its straight front edge being folded over and stitched inthe formation of companion overlapping p1acketmembers, and, co-operablefastening members on the placket-members for detachably securing thesame together in garment closing position.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

1 JAMES H. RAMBO.

